DAILY GRINDER: Philadelphians Uglier Than Ever, Apparently
They’re at it again: Travel and Leisure Magazine has a new ranking out that says, without a doubt, according to, like, science or some shit, Philadelphians’ combined attractiveness ranks 33rd of the country’s 35 largest cities. The good news is that we’re not as hideous and twisted as Baltimore and Anchorage, Alaska, whose freak populations came in...
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Philadelphia Officer Kat Battle Remembered as Dedicated Servant, Neighbor
Officer Kat Battle “I was depressed all day Saturday when I got the page and they told me she passed away,” says Commissioner Charles Ramsey, on receiving the news that Officer Kathryn Battle, 57, had died of breast cancer. “When I first got [the news], I text messaged the head of Homicide. I didn’t want to put down the words ‘I heard she had passed.’...
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Are Menacing Posts on Occupy Philly’s Facebook Page from a Philly Cop?
This message was posted and deleted Saturday night. 5:00pm Sunday is the deadline for Occupy protesters to clear off Dilworth Plaza. Someone going by the name of Mike Sidebotham—whose profile indicates he is a Philadelphia police officer—posted a menacing message to the Occupy Philadelphia facebook page Saturday evening. He posted the notorious photo...
Continue ReadingA Day of Violence Rocks Philly, Oakland
The Philadelphia Inquirer, filing a story by the Associated Press, had a lot of print/web space for a murder in Oakland, Calif. today, near the Occupy Oakland camp. There was also a number of violent incidents in the city it covers. A man was shot and killed near Occupy Oakland last night, starting a flurry of police versus the people controversy. Police say...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: ‘Responsibility’
Actual headline: PHA took luxury trips to discuss city’s poorest. Actual text from article: “In 2009 alone, the Philadelphia Housing Authority spent more than $76,000 on two retreats, not including $3,350 paid to Ballard Spahr for one of its partners to advise senior staff on government housing regulations.” [Inky] Reps. Bob Brady’s and Chakkah Fattah’s...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Amends, Threats, Sales, Lies…
Police commissioner Ramsey suspended 54-year-old Police veteran John King for assault, terroristic threats and intimidation charges related to a disturbance at Mercy Hospital in October 2009. [Some news release] Amends: Nutter meets Wednesday with city LGBT leaders to discuss the Boy Scout building sale. [Philly.com] Governor Tom Corbett releases his first...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Smoothing a Few Things Out
Not News: Fox News suspended Rick Santorum (and Newt Gingrich) yesterday, which you heard about, because he’s running for president and that’s a conflict of interest. [Politico] News: The network didn’t suspend Mike Huckabee or Sarah Palin. [Say what?] Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey claims last year’s Daily News expose on crooked cops cost him putting...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: With All Other Problems Solved, The New Black Panthers Are Back In Public Discourse
Attorney General Eric Holder got mighty testy during a hearing into the New Black Panthers case yesterday (yeah, that’s still a thing). Now that Republicans have control of committees in the House, they’re re-opening this stuff and telling Holder he didn’t prosecute the case because…spin the wheel…they are black and so is he! Rep. Chaka Fattah told...
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Daily Grinder: Give Carl Greene His Due!
Disgraced, public life-is-basically-over, out-of-state shock treatment(?) king/former Philadelphia Housing Authority executive director Carl Greene wants $4 million from PHA, and he wants PHA to settle. A wealth of PHA board members and others think this is ridiculous. Former Mayor John Street was emailed by the Inky and wrote a message back saying “Ha Ha!”...
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